Yang Fan is a DPhil Student and Tutor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Teaching appointments include: Tutor for Psycholinguistics (2023 Michaelmas Term, 2024 Trinity Term) Tutor for Prelims Syntax (2023 Michaelmas Term to 2024 Hilary Term) Research focuses on psycholinguistics and syntax-semantics interface, specifically investigating memory mechanisms during online sentence processing with emphasis on garden-path reanalysis. Their DPhil project is supervised by Professor Matthew Husband.
Dr. Eugene J Dawydiak is a Lecturer at the School of Psychology & Neuroscience , University of Glasgow. His research focuses on psycholinguistics, disgust sensitivity, and its relationship to social attitudes and mental health stigma. He actively supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations exploring topics like trypophobia predictors and the impact of written academic feedback on student behavior. His work bridges cognitive science and interdisciplinary studies, with notable contributions to understanding how pathogen disgust influences societal stigma. Collaborative projects include analyzing student emotional responses to feedback mechanisms. Office hours and contact details are available via university portals. Key publications span 1998–2025, addressing topics from quantifier focus in discourse to modern educational feedback strategies. Research highlights include linking disgust psychology to mental health perceptions and refining methods for evaluating written academic feedback efficacy. Lab Group Approach: Dissertation supervision emphasizes collaborative research communities Methodology: Quantitative studies using online self-report measures Current Projects: Trypophobia severity predictors, stigma reduction through disgust sensitivity analysis
Christoph Scheepers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD from the University of Freiburg and has held academic positions at institutions including the University of Saarbruecken and the University of Dundee before joining Glasgow in 2005. His research focuses on psycholinguistics and the psychology of language, particularly mental representations, eye-tracking methodologies, and situated language use. He has supervised numerous postgraduate students and collaborated on grants from organizations like the Templeton Religion Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council. His work explores topics such as syntactic priming, visual attention, and the interface between language and vision. Education: Bachelor’s in Psychology (University of Bochum, 1991) PhD in Psychology (University of Freiburg, 1997) Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language processing, eye-tracking, situated language use, and interdisciplinary approaches to language and cognition. Grants & Awards: Templeton Religion Trust grants for projects on paratexts and dynamic mental representations (2011–2014, 2022–2023, 2023–2026) Economic and Social Research Council grants for studies on passive constructions and lexical priming (2007–2014) Students & Collaborators: Supervised 5 PhD students and collaborated with researchers like Andriy Myachykov on datasets analyzing language processing. Labs/Teams: Involved in interdisciplinary teams studying cognitive processes, language production, and visual-world paradigms.
Dr. David Gyorfi is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey's Surrey Morphology Group. He holds a PhD and specializes in the syntax, semantics, and typology of Turkic languages, particularly focusing on auxiliary verb constructions, tense-aspect-modality systems, and historical linguistics. His current Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigates 'Analogical growth of grammatical systems,' analyzing auxiliary verbs across global languages. He is an expert in modern and old Turkic varieties like Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Tatar. Research Interests: Turkic language verbal systems Auxiliary constructions Historical Turkic dialectology Syntax-semantics interface Advising & Funding: His work is supported by the Leverhulme Trust and University of Surrey grants. He collaborates within the Surrey Morphology Group, contributing to cross-linguistic research projects. Labs/Teams: Active member of the Surrey Morphology Group, a leading centre for morphological research.
Jumbly Grindrod is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading, serving as Undergraduate Admissions Tutor. Their research focuses on philosophy of language, epistemology, and the application of corpus linguistic methods to philosophical inquiry, particularly examining large language models' relevance to these fields. Grindrod’s teaching includes undergraduate modules such as Reason and Argument, Meaning and the Mind, and Ignorance, Doubt, and Relativism, which explore foundational topics in logic, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Their work bridges traditional philosophical questions with modern computational tools, emphasizing empirical approaches to semantics and pragmatics. Grindrod welcomes PhD supervision inquiries in areas like philosophy of language, epistemology, corpus methods, and AI ethics. Recent publications (2017–2024) critically engage with contextualism, epistemic standards, and the semantics-pragmatics interface, often leveraging corpus data to refine linguistic and epistemological theories. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but their contributions reflect active engagement with interdisciplinary debates. Grindrod’s teaching and research roles position them at the intersection of traditional philosophy and cutting-edge computational methodologies.
Professor Petar Milin holds a position as Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning at the University of Birmingham's Department of Modern Languages. He earned a BA and MA in Psychology from the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), followed by a PhD in experimental and computational psychology from the University of Belgrade. His career includes roles as Assistant Professor (1990s–2016), Associate Professor (2009–2016), Senior Researcher at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (2013–2016), and Senior Lecturer positions at the University of Sheffield and Birmingham. He co-founded Novi Sad's Laboratory for Experimental Psychology (2009–2015) and contributed to EU-funded curricula development projects. His research focuses on the role of learning in language behavior, combining experimental and computational methods with statistical analysis. Primary interests include language communication dynamics, probabilistic phenomena in language (stylometry, text quantification), and cognitive systems integration. He leads the Out Of Our Minds project (Leverhulme Trust-funded), exploring language learning optimization. Notable grants include €180k and €703k EU TEMPUS grants for curricula development. Professor Milin has authored/co-authored influential papers in journals like Journal of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science , and holds editorial roles at Cognitive Linguistics and Entropy . He is a Turing Fellow and Research Ambassador for Eberhard Karls University. Current advisees include students researching L2 aspectual usage, eye-tracking in bilingualism, and technology-enhanced language learning. Teaching specialties include Statistics, Research Methods, Psycholinguistics, and Learning Theory. His work bridges cognitive science and computational linguistics, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to language understanding and acquisition.
Dr. Roberto B Sileo is an Affiliated Lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He serves as Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Homerton College, where he is also a Postgraduate Tutor and Praelector. His roles include teaching and research supervision across undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Affiliations: University of Cambridge (Lecturer), Homerton College (Fellow, Director of Studies) Education: PhD & MPhil in Linguistics (Cambridge), Law Degrees (Oxford/Buenos Aires), English Language Teaching (Argentina) His research focuses on bilingualism, first/second language processing, pragmatics, and semantics. Key projects include investigations into anaphora resolution, temporal ordering in discourse, and the semantics of racial/ethnic slurs. Recent work explores the intersection of aspectuality and anaphora in L1/L2 contexts (2024) and contextualist accounts of slurs (2018-2021). Publications span pragmatic-theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, and sociolinguistics. His nonword repetition task for Czech (2019) contributes to language assessment methodologies. Current research clusters include semantics/pragmatics, experimental phonetics, and computational linguistics. No formal awards listed, though his active postdoctoral research roles (2018-2021) indicate sustained scholarly engagement. His work intersects with Homerton College's academic community and the broader TAL research initiatives at Cambridge.
Professor Daniel Rothschild is a faculty member at University College London (UCL) in the Department of Philosophy, holding the academic rank of Professor of Philosophy of Language. His research focuses on the intersection of language, reasoning, and AI, with emphasis on areas such as dynamic semantics, presupposition projection, epistemic modality, and formal pragmatics. He actively engages in interdisciplinary work, incorporating insights from cognitive psychology and computational linguistics. Rothschild has organized numerous academic events, including conferences on topics like 'Truthmakers and Language' (2019) and 'Bayesian Approaches to Pragmatics' (2018). He teaches courses such as 'Learning and AI' and 'Dynamic Semantics' at UCL, reflecting his commitment to bridging philosophical inquiry with contemporary technological advancements. His academic contributions span over two decades, with publications in top journals including Noûs , Philosophical Studies , and Journal of Philosophical Logic . He leads the AHRC-funded 'Dynamics of Conversation' project (Grant # AH/M009602/1), exploring dynamic semantics and its applications to conversational contexts. Rothschild’s work often addresses foundational questions in semantics, such as the relationship between language and thought, the nature of presuppositions, and the role of probability in linguistic understanding. His research highlights the explanatory power of dynamic frameworks in capturing how language shapes and is shaped by cognitive processes.
Professor Richard Breheny is a Professor of Experimental Linguistics at University College London (UCL), where he has been since 2005. His academic background includes a PhD (1999) and MA (1993), both from UCL. His research focuses on the intersection of cognitive psychology, computational models, and linguistic theory, particularly in pragmatics, semantics, and experimental methods. He leads the Experimental Pragmatics Lab (expraglab), exploring topics like scalar implicatures, pragmatic reasoning, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying language processing. His recent work investigates how large language models (LLMs) can better mimic human language comprehension, addressing challenges in inference tasks, cognitive load, and context adaptation. He has extensively studied the role of alternatives in semantic interpretation, polarity items, and the dynamics of conversational implicatures. His research employs experimental methodologies, including eye-tracking and visual-world paradigms, to dissect real-time language processing. Notable contributions include rethinking scalar diversity, the symmetry problem in pragmatics, and the development of theories on implicature priming and context-independent conceptual features. Despite his prolific output, no scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. His advising record remains unlisted, though his lab’s collaborative network suggests active mentorship in experimental linguistics.
James Brand is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology specializing in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. He holds a PhD from Lancaster University (2017) and focuses on topics such as linguistic relativity, bilingualism, and socio-semantics. His research employs methodologies like self-paced reading experiments, principal component analysis, and corpus linguistics. Research Interests: Linguistic relativity effects in grammatical/conceptual gender Agreement attraction phenomena in syntax processing Vowel variation and acoustic-phonetic analysis Socio-semantics of lexical meaning across languages Word learning mechanisms in children and adults Collaborations include institutions in the Czech Republic (Prague's Faculty of Arts) and New Zealand, reflecting his cross-linguistic research focus. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with empirical methods, often using computational tools for data analysis. Recent articles (2023-2025) emphasize bilingual cognition, Czech-English syntactic comparisons, and the role of amplitude in vowel production. His research has been published in journals like Language and Cognition , Bilingualism , and Glossa Psycholinguistics .
Dr Richard Ashdowne is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics at Merton College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on Latin and Romance languages, particularly lexical semantics, pragmatics, and medieval Latin lexicography. He previously spent six years as a lexicographer of British medieval Latin and advises the Anglo-Norman Dictionary project. His work bridges classical and medieval language studies, emphasizing the relationship between Latin and other languages in medieval Britain. Roles: Teaching undergraduate linguistics/classical languages, lexicography, advisory roles. Key Research: Medieval Latin semantics, language evolution, and interdisciplinary connections between Latin and English vocabulary. Publications span lexicography, medieval Latin analysis, and pedagogical innovations. His writing often explores how medieval Latin texts preserve early English vocabulary and contextual language use. No awards are explicitly mentioned, but his contributions to medieval language studies are notable. Advising and grants are not detailed in the text. He is affiliated with Merton College and contributes to collaborative projects like the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
Professor Danijela Trenkic holds a BA from the University of Belgrade, and MPhil/PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has served as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Education before becoming a full Professor at the University of York. Her primary affiliations include the Department of Education within the Faculty of Social Sciences, and she leads the MA Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching program. She has held roles in academic promotions panels, and served as President of the European Second Language Association (2015–2019). Education: BA (Hons) in English Language & Literature (Belgrade), MPhil/PhD in English & Applied Linguistics (Cambridge) Key Roles: MA Programme Leader, Academic Promotions Panel member Research Groups: Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Education (CASLE) Her research bridges psycholinguistics and education, focusing on: 1. Cognitive mechanisms of second language learning (e.g., cross-linguistic influences, bilingual cognition) 2. Language-literacy-academics interplay in higher education, particularly for international students 3. Second language segmentation and teaching methodologies Her publications analyze bilingual language control, IELTS testing validity, and vocabulary disparities in higher education. Recent work highlights vocabulary knowledge as a critical factor in academic equity. She has supervised over 10 PhD students and served on editorial boards for journals like JESLA and EUROSLA Yearbook. Awards: Kenneth E. Naylor Prize (2002), VC Anniversary Lectureship (2005) Consultancy: Language policy advice for institutions like the Government of Nunavut Current research explores how language experiences modulate bilingual control and investigates linguistic predictors of academic success. She actively recruits PhD candidates in these areas.
Dr. Ute Römer-Barron is a prominent researcher in corpus linguistics with over 20 years of contributions to language teaching, academic writing, and phraseological analysis. She serves as General Editor for the Studies in Corpus Linguistics book series and has co-edited multiple volumes on corpus-driven methodologies. Specializes in verb-argument constructions (VACs) and formulaic sequences Investigates second language acquisition through computational corpus analysis Develops pedagogical frameworks for corpus-based English teaching Her work spans academic writing in English as a lingua franca (2020), L2 development patterns (2019), and psycholinguistic studies of construction learning (2014). Recent research (2024) examines modal verb constructions in L2 learners.
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli is an internationally recognised Professor whose research integrates theoretical linguistics with experimental psycholinguistics to understand bilingual acquisition, language impairment, and the interfaces between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. She co-edits the Language Acquisition and Language Disorders series for John Benjamins and leads large-scale projects such as MultiLiLa exploring multilingual education in India. Research interests: Bilingual first and second language acquisition across childhood Language disorders (SLI, DLD, autism) in bilingual populations Anaphora resolution and pronoun interpretation Cross-linguistic influence, heritage languages and language attrition English-medium instruction and literacy in low-resource contexts Executive functions, Theory of Mind and their interaction with language Her recent work combines experimental protocols (eye-tracking, narrative analysis, elicited production) with advanced statistical modelling, often within multilingual classrooms in South Asia and the Maldives. A recurrent theme is how individual differences—age, cognitive capacity, print exposure—modulate linguistic performance in typical and atypical development. Editorial & professional roles: Co-editor, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders book series (John Benjamins) Co-editor, 2023 volume Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution Repeated contributor to EUROSLA Yearbook and flagship journals such as Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism Although the present source does not list institutional affiliation, grant details, or personal honours, the sheer volume and impact of her recent publications indicate continuous, full-time academic activity at professorial level.
Dr. Ksenia Zanon serves as a University Assistant Professor in the Slavonic Studies section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Concurrently, she holds a Fellowship and Director of Studies position at Christ's College, overseeing Modern & Medieval Languages (Part 1B and Year Abroad) and Linguistics programs. Her educational background includes a dual Ph.D. in Linguistics and East European Languages and Cultures from Indiana University. This foundational training bridges theoretical linguistics and regional language expertise. Dr. Zanon's research centers on generative syntactic theory with specialization in East and South Slavic languages. She investigates quantification, syntactic interface interactions, interrogatives, and information structure through empirical analysis of Slavic data. Her work consistently connects theoretical frameworks with language-specific phenomena, particularly in Russian syntax. Recent publications analyze narrative imperatives, wh-indefinites in Russian, and expletive negation, demonstrating her focus on formal syntactic mechanisms within Slavic languages. These contributions appear in leading linguistics venues including the Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics series and the Journal of Slavic Linguistics , reflecting sustained engagement with core theoretical questions. Dr. Zanon actively supervises postgraduate research and welcomes inquiries from prospective MPhil and PhD students whose interests align with her expertise in Slavic syntax and linguistic theory. Her teaching portfolio spans Russian language, History of Russian, Slavonic languages, Linguistic Theory, and Syntax across undergraduate and graduate programs.
